The Anchorage Police Department’s sometimes apparently fictitious Facebook feature – What Not To Do Wednesday (WNTDW) – has been shut down apparently due to the efforts of a woman who works for […]
Maj. Major
Clickbaiting
Alaska’s largest newspaper is once again pushing – knowingly or unknowingly – the economic nonsense pitched by a mouthpiece for the state’s commercial fishing industry. “One Alaska king salmon is worth the […]
Trail’s end
A soft-spoken, rail-thin Anchorage musician and author once Alaska famous as one of the hardest of hard men on the Iditarod Trail is dead at the age of 66. Shawn Lyons for […]
The optimist
As of today – with Dr. Al Gross trailing incumbent Alaska Republic Sen. Dan Sullivan by 61,000 votes to 119,000 votes – the independent candidate needs to win about three out of […]
Hormonal dangers
UPDATE: Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has resigned. He issued a statement citing “unacceptable personal conduct” as the reason. The nature of that conduct remains undefined. While Duane Ose, the 78-year-old […]
Pay up
Two more former top editors of the Anchorage Daily News (ADN) are now in court battling to get their former bosses to pay them more than $1.7 million dollars they are owed. […]
SES who?
News analysis Almost 100 years ago in a now little read short story titled “The Rich Boy,” the late American author F. Scott Fitzgerald observed that the rich “are different from you […]
Down and out
One of those long-hidden stories known to many familiar with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race went public Thursday when it was revealed to the world that four-time champ Lance Mackey from […]
The cubicle class
Few ideas are more dear to Americans than the belief that they live in a society free of class, and nothing in modern times has done a better job of putting a […]
Banning books
When and how was it that American journalists became so contumelious toward the U.S. working class? On second thought, let me rephrase that to head off the comments from conservative critics of […]
